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 what walking means in cultural history:
+  * Homeric bards, old wanderers for whom walking was a part of poetry
-   * Homeric bards, old wanderers for whom walking was a part of poetry
+  * the Peripatetic philiosophers who taught and discoured while walking back and forth in a Stoa
-   * the Peripatetic philiosophers who taught and discoured while walking back and forth in a Stoa
+  * Collonade; the walking poets of the Hellenistic world, who would leave a little poem behind them them at a brook or under a shade tree where other walkers from town to town would find them, extolling the shade of the tree, the clarity and coolness of the water in the brook,
-   * Collonade; the walking poets of the Hellenistic world, who would leave a little poem behind them them at a brook or under a shade tree where other walkers from town to town would find them, extolling the shade of the tree, the clarity and coolness of the water in the brook,
+  *  The Sky- walking or Cloud-walking Taoist poets and ages, who would high uo in the mountain peaks in cloud banks
-   *  The Sky- walking or Cloud-walking Taoist poets and ages, who would high uo in the mountain peaks in cloud banks
    *  Li Po walking and following the moon
    * The Buddhist walking meditation, in which excruciating slowness first the path then the heel of each foot gloms the ground.
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   * the walk to the end of the world that Alexander the Great wept from inability to complete
  * the wandering scholars and troubadours of the European Middle Ages
- * Mao's Lonf March and Gandhi's Walk to the Sea
+ * Mao's Long March and Gandhi's Walk to the Sea
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+* the man who ritually walked the lenght, from end to end, of every streetin Mahattan. http://www.manhattanwalkblog.com/
+and so on
+walking just aas a motion, as process, as a going on in life, a continuum, a mode of selfexpression or dicovery or exploration, a means of bonding with the landscape, or being at a raw level in the environment, like the Indian sadhus with their vowed walks, their walked vows.
+  * The prostrating walk in Chine Buddhism. The monk enters a concentration or one pint-state as much as possible, faces in the direction he wishes to traverse, and lies flat on his face on the ground; when he gets up he plants his feet where his face had been when he was lying down, gathers his concentration again, and so on. It's much like the movement of an inch-worm, except that with each prostration he advances about five feet. For centuries Buddhist monks developing their vipassana concentration, or one-point attention to the present moment, would vow do to this excersice for a year, usually circumambulating a mountain with prostrations.One famous monk did this for forty years, then became a teacher of the dharma in his old age.
+(source:  The Lovers, The Great Wall Walk, marina Abramovic and Ulay. pg 95, 112)